Fire - 22 pictures

Advanced Photoshop Contest - 22 entries

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Contest Info

Started: 10/22/2007 06:00

Ended: 10/24/2007 06:00

Level: advanced

Entries: 22

Jackpot:

$5

$3

$2

Contest Directions:
Southern California had a tough weekend - dozens of wildfires are quickly spreading with gusting winds, causing the state of emergency in 7 Californian counties and putting thousands of homes at risk. Firefighters are working around the clock to contain the spreading fires and to prevent them from spreading.
Photoshop fire any way you like. Some examples are settings things a flame, shaping fire into something (objects, liquids, etc), making new products with fire (e.g. Fire Pepsi), adding fire to composition in paintings and magazines. Your entry has to include at least some fire in it one way or another.

thekillerbeeThis is an original work using a small source for the initial fire. The rest is only using the liquify filter and some experimentation. Hope you like it. I think it would make a fine tattoo.

Well, you certainly have a lot going on in this image. The thing it is missing though is 'depth'.

Start with the element in the forefront (the rose) and make the necessary adjustments (ie: contrast, brightness, saturation, shadows, colour levels, ect.) until you work your way all the way to the back with the rifles. For your shadows, I would use the fire as your light source so you could cast them straight down if you wish. If this is the case, the underside of the rose head and the stem would be slightly darker than the top. The lower part of the jaw of the skull could be slightly darker and some slight shadowing could be applied to the downward side to any raised facial features. The top of the skull should reflect some colour of the light source. The central part of the fire is fine but slightly fade out the edges in places so that it doesn't have a solid appearance. The contrast of the rifles could be reduced and the colour levels slightly reduced so that they are not as prominant. Keep them lighter towards the light source but darker as you move away. Reflecting the colour of the fire along the top edges of the rifles would certainly garner extra points.

I know this sounds like a lot, but it would add so much more to your entry.

THANKS c00p! I'll work on it tonight. Ran out of time last night (damn the need to sleep!) You always have very helpful comments. They are very much appriciated. As far as all the things going on in the chop, I felt Flaming Chaos explained it all. Just like the world around us, there is both beauty and destruction happening simultaniously at any instant.

Me likes. Reminds me of Guns and Roses...

I agree with Mundo. Twisted entry and definitely rings a bell of Guns and Roses.

This contest is fueled by the following news: Fire – in a restricted sense – is a complex of hot gases or plasmas, consequently releasing the following:
• Conditional and unconditional heating of the inflammable material to a certain point;
• Chemical reaction (Here and further inflammable material is understood as such things, like wood, and unassociated components which does not take part in the reaction, for example, Sulphur);
• Contact of current of high potential with inflammable material.
Fire is the basic phase of the combustion process and has self distributive properties with the involvement of other combustible materials by fire. Proper temperature of the fire depends upon the source, inducing the ignition reaction and/or from the materials, taking part in the reaction of combustion.
In the military service the word "fire" is understood as firing from a firing weapon (with bullets or other shells).
Significance in the daily life
Because of the highly important value of fire there are different methods to obtain it which was invented even by the primitive man, having used them for lighting, heating, food preparation, safety from the wild animals and to pass some code signals. The first method, apparently, stood the method which was derived from an unspecified combusting source, such as lightening (however lightening, taking into consideration different natural conditions and weather, rarely stroked wood). Raising friction which was low effective, a stick rotating into a piece of wood, was replaced by the spunk, which was made of fungal warts on the oak tree and ash tree. Traditional form of support for fire in those days and at present, during the passage of survival course, was wood fire.